need help with audio

[mathews2010]

 

[mathews2010]

ahh..i believe i know whats goin on....but before i make myself lookk like a retard...u want to play ur guitar as the speakers hold as a bass and instantly playback what u play right?

 

[mathews2010]

on vista ur MIC is automatically muted by default not to playback..because it was a nuisance..who wants to hear what u say through ur speakers? rather than hear the person ur talkn to..

so to straighten this out right click on ur volume control
in control panel>>>in control panel home>>>click hardware and sound>>>>>>sound>>click on the playback tab>>set speakers as default..and hit properties..click on the levels tab



make sure everything is unmuted...
and set everything that was at 0 to 50..for the sake of this..

main thing is ur mic and pink line in, black line in, etc..


hope this helps...sorry for the kind of confusing directions

 

[blood_fr3ak]

on vista ur MIC is automatically muted by default not to playback..because it was a nuisance..who wants to hear what u say through ur speakers? rather than hear the person ur talkn to..

so to straighten this out right click on ur volume control
in control panel>>>in control panel home>>>click hardware and sound>>>>>>sound>>click on the playback tab>>set speakers as default..and hit properties..click on the levels tab

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make sure everything is unmuted...
and set everything that was at 0 to 50..for the sake of this..

main thing is ur mic and pink line in, black line in, etc..


hope this helps...sorry for the kind of confusing directions

Under the levels tab I don't have all of those levels, I only have "Realtek HD Audio Output" and "PC Beep".

 

[FightingScallion]

I assume when Toshiba had you update, they had you update through their site. Try getting the Vista drivers for your Realtek here: Realtek

The top option should be the one you want. Install that (set a Windows Restore point before you do). Restart you computer, and then see if those bars have reappeared.

 

[mathews2010]

nice find..fightingscallion...once we get the drivers updated..lets see if we can unmute ur microphone

 

[mathews2010]

the driver i have is a bit old...i try the one that u gave me on the website...see what happens...if it doesnt help i might jus roll back the driver

 

[mathews2010]

not much of a difference between my new and old drivers..
hopefully there is one for u!
oh yeah u should unmute everything
i kept mine muted because it was a nuisance for me

 

[blood_fr3ak]

I assume when Toshiba had you update, they had you update through their site. Try getting the Vista drivers for your Realtek here: Realtek

The top option should be the one you want. Install that (set a Windows Restore point before you do). Restart you computer, and then see if those bars have reappeared.

Can someone talk me through how to update the drivers?
Toshiba had me remove the driver and it re-installed it automatically when I restarted my pc.

 

[blood_fr3ak]

Ok, I think that I did it right. But, now I only have "speakers/headphones" under the levels tab. I turned it all of the way up and still nothing.

 

[FightingScallion]

Okay, this is starting to get into the realm of the very strange. If you look in your hardware manager, is there another sound driver?

There's a built in microphone and webcam (if I remember right) on your computer, so what I'm starting to think is that your microphone might be tied to something different sound card. Sounds stupid, I know, but it is possible. In that case, we need to track down what is controlling the microphone.

If you can post a picture of the image that shows the microphone with the little green bars that go up and down, that'll help tremendously in determining if that's what is going on.

 

[blood_fr3ak]

Okay, this is starting to get into the realm of the very strange. If you look in your hardware manager, is there another sound driver?

There's a built in microphone and webcam (if I remember right) on your computer, so what I'm starting to think is that your microphone might be tied to something different sound card. Sounds stupid, I know, but it is possible. In that case, we need to track down what is controlling the microphone.

If you can post a picture of the image that shows the microphone with the little green bars that go up and down, that'll help tremendously in determining if that's what is going on.

Under device manager there is only one area that says “Sound, video and game controller” when I click the “+” sign, there are two speaker icons both are labeled “Realtek high Definition Audio”.

Also, which screenshot do you want with the new driver or the original one? The pc reinstalls the original drivers when I restart it.

 

[FightingScallion]

I've got to admit, now I'm completely baffled. The fact that the Toshiba people don't think it is possible wasn't enough to deter me, but now I'm thinking they may have set it up so you can't (how stupid would that be?).

Chances are this won't really help or work, but you may want to try calling Realtek support. Theoretically, they should know how to work their cards, right?

As an interim solution (though not really positive), I do have a way you could completely trick this. It's not good, but it's an option. You could get a couple of mini-plug splitters. You could have one split the wire from the guitar so that you could run one wire to the computer and the other directly to a combiner (might be different than splitter? don't remember) that you would hook up at the speaker to combine the sound from the computer with the sound from the guitar. Not nice, but maybe an option? I don't like it though.

In other news, if you plan on doing high-quality recording on your computer, you're probably going to want to consider a better solution than using a laptop's onboard sound card. If you need advice on that, let me know.

 

[blood_fr3ak]

here is the pic of the mic with the green bars that you asked for.

 

[FightingScallion]

here is the pic of the mic with the green bars that you asked for.

That was exactly what I didn't want to see. Definitely from the same card/drivers. There's something else wonky going on here. Either Toshiba is going to have to cough up a real expert for you, or you'll have to talk to Realtek.

Best of luck. Please, let us know how it turns out.

 

[mathews2010]

Actually Blood Freak,

you are absolutely correct about the drivers reinstalling itself when u restart..it happened to me too..but those are jus standard vista drivers...once u get there...this is when u unload the realtek package that you downloaded...

if nothings happening

i can do a connection to ur computer via remote assistance

 

[mathews2010]

please give me an image of your playback devices's properties

lets see whats going on

 

[blood_fr3ak]

please give me an image of your playback devices's properties

lets see whats going on

I'm not sure what you want to see specifically, is this it?

 

[mathews2010]

ahh i see...u only got two? that's so weird...what do u think about the remote assistance?

 

[blood_fr3ak]

ahh i see...u only got two? that's so weird...what do u think about the remote assistance?

I guess that I have no other choice, no offense. I'm just wary, I'm sure that you understand.

Just tell me what to do.